Donna Air: ‘The Middletons? No comment’

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The television presenter and former Byker Grove actress has become an expert in discretion over high-profile romances

Donna Air has something special. She achieved childhood fame as a star of Ant and Dec’s Byker Grove, toured the world in a teen pop band — although she tells me she could sing not a note — and became a model, a television presenter, actress, “brand ambassador” and, according to her website, a “health advocate”. “I’ve started to get showbiz amnesia,” she admits when I ask if so-and-so was on this or that with her back in the day. “I just say ‘Hello’ to everybody now because I presume that I’ve worked with them. I don’t often say, ‘Oh, nice to